Channel View Publications

This book constructs scenarios from Shanghai to Edinburgh, Seoul to California encompassing complex topics such as human trafficking, conferences, transport, food tourism or technological innovation...

Inclusion, disability, ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore...

Inclusion, disability, ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore...

This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect and aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between...

This book represents a shifting of emphasis away from the discourse of authenticity to the process of authenticating ethnic tourism. It focuses upon what authentication is, how it works, who is...

This book brings together global experts in planning, design and management to inform and stimulate providers of travel, transport, accommodation, leisure and tourism services to serve guests with...

Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates into tourism experiences and mobilities as well as...

The role of books in framing travel imaginings is an important social and cultural phenomenon. This book explores how reading books influences the way in which we understand travel and the tourist...

In this book experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The debates include subjects such as...

Aspects of global coffee culture are explored as they relate to the settings where the beverage is produced, prepared and consumed as part of coffee related tourism. The book examines the potential...

Focusing on the formative influence of the works of John Ruskin in defining and developing cultural tourism, this book describes and assesses their effects on the 'tourist gaze' ('where to go and...

Focusing on the formative influence of the works of John Ruskin in defining and developing cultural tourism, this book describes and assesses their effects on the 'tourist gaze' ('where to go and...

This book is the first to examine the complexity of global Christian travel and how it manifests in terms of both supply and demand. It considers the places and spaces of production and consumption...

This book provides a strategic approach to understanding the nature of tourism crises and disasters highlighting the need for integrated crisis and disaster planning, response and long term recovery...

In this volume tourism experts collectively discuss and debate some intriguing questions that the tourism industry poses, such as the relevance of mass tourism, the dilemma of authenticity, whether...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism, as well as applied knowledge...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the key political and social debates in the field of cultural tourism, drawing on a range of international examples to exemplify the issues raised. The...

This volume provides an overview of cultural tourism in southern Africa. It examines the utilisation of culture in southern African tourism and the related impacts, possibilities and challenges from...

This book brings together an explicit linkage between empirical and theoretical perspectives on tourism and discourse. A broad social semiotic approach is adopted to analyze a range of spoken,...

This book portrays a fresh approach to tourism. It argues for increased and radical change by the tourism industry and claims that this change is made necessary by the emergent sophistication and...

This book provides a systematic, country-by-country analysis of tourism policy, planning and organisation in the EU. It applies a conceptual framework to offer a new critical approach to comparative...

This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel - based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change - is a major...

Festivals have burgeoned in rural areas, revitalising old traditions and inventing new reasons to celebrate. How do festivals contribute to tourism, community and a rural sense of belonging? What are...

This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful.Festivals are examined as ways of responding to...

This research-based monograph presents an introduction to the concept of film-induced tourism, building on the work of the seminal first edition. This revised edition has been thoroughly updated with...

With continuously growing tourist numbers and pressure on resources increases there is a need to preserve and protect natural, cultural and historic resources. This book introduces a number of case...

Backpackers have shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the spotlight. This book explores the international backpacker phenomenon and includes different disciplinary perspectives on its...

The use of natural geothermal springs in the treatment of illness and the promotion of wellness forms the foundation for a discussion of the development and growth of health and wellness tourism in...

This book offers new approaches and insights into the relationships between heritage tourism and notions of modernity, identity building and sustainable development in China. It demonstrates that the...

This book examines the main issues and concepts relating to heritage, screen and literary tourism (HSLT) and analyses the demand and supply of HSLT within the frameworks provided by service-dominant...